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I think Blender and Figma are good, professional tools. For the rest of them, I'm sure they work fine if you don't need to produce extremely polished stuff at volume— but they're not even close to good for that use case. (which is what my comment was about) I could see a UX Designer who works primarily in wireframes and such things getting by fine with linux, but not someone who works primarily in visuals.



Visuals is a very broad term.

As you can read in my comment I agree with you. For example working with text in Gimp is just horrible. And Inkscape is very good untill you need it for CMYK.

But this thread is about owning your PC. And then I think all those trade-offs can be overcome. Sometimes this means thinking in other directions. For example the choice to design in CSS instead of Photoshop.

I don't think you can say: 'I cannot get away from Apple'.

But you can say: 'I choose to stay at Apple because I think it is more convenient'.

The choice is yours.




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